More and more students in Sri Lanka join classes from home, travel less for tuition and expect to revise from recordings before exams. Teachers who offer online or hybrid classes can reach students from other towns and keep their class running even when students can't attend in person.
Going online doesn't mean you have to become a tech expert. Here is a simple path, step by step.
1. Decide how your class will run
Start by choosing the model that fits your students:
- Fully online - live sessions and recordings only. Best for reaching students across the country.
- Hybrid - your physical class continues, and students also get recordings, notes and papers online. This is where most teachers start.
- Revision and paper classes online - keep theory in the hall, and move papers and revision online.
2. Give your class one home online
When notes are in one WhatsApp group, recordings in another and class times only on a Facebook post, students miss things and new students can't find you. A single place - your own tuition class website - fixes that. It shows your subjects, class times, results and how to join, and it can be found on Google.
3. Record your lessons
Recordings are what students value most in an online class. They can catch up on a missed day and rewatch difficult lessons before an exam. A phone on a stand and a clear microphone is enough to start. What matters more is that recordings are organised and only available to your enrolled students.
4. Move your papers online
Paper classes take a lot of time to mark. With online MCQ papers, marking happens automatically and students see their results straight away. Essay papers can still be collected and marked by you. Over time, each student's marks build a clear progress record that you - and parents - can follow.
5. Keep students informed
Class cancelled? New paper uploaded? Exam timetable changed? Students need to know quickly. Notices sent through your own tuition class app reach every student at once, instead of getting lost in a busy group chat.
6. Keep track of students and attendance
As your class grows, registers in books and lists in spreadsheets become hard to manage. A class management system keeps student registrations, attendance, marks and recordings together in one dashboard.
7. Tell your students
Once everything is ready, share your website link on your Facebook page, in your WhatsApp groups and on your class banners and leaflets. Ask current students to share it too - word of mouth is still the biggest source of new students for most tuition classes.
The easy way
You can piece all of this together yourself with different free tools, but most teachers find it takes time they don't have. Kinet gives you a website, mobile app and class management system that work together under your own name - and we do the setup for you. See the packages or talk to us for a free consultation.